Maybe some US officials watched anime in their younger days and thought: “Hey, let’s give some of this confiscated technology to the government of Japan, maybe they’ll create some awesome mechs with it!”

Has anyone suggested that the UN contact the Martian commander and offer to extradite any surviving malefactors to face their jurisprudence? I mean, they probably won’t care; would you listen to such an offer from a group of cockroaches who have destroyed some of your stuff. However, someone should at least make the effort.

FWIW, I think that Linda would surrender herself without hesitation if it came down to her or the entire world.

If cockroaches managed to give me any kind of intelligible proposal, you bet I would listen to it. Hopefully I can turn mercy toward the group into 1. a negotiated way to coexist, 2. publishing the greatest scientific discovery of all time, or 3. an army of insect minions.

I think it’s been suggested that the Martians aren’t particularly inclined to discriminate between “the humans who killed thousands of our people, or at least have some connection to them” and “the humans who don’t”, but I could have that wrong. That aside, this sounds about right, yes.